[http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu dmenu] is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line. The user can then select an item, through the arrow keys or typing a part of the name, and the line is printed to stdout. dmenu_run is a wrapper that ships with the dmenu distribution that allows its use as an application launcher.

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== Introduction ==

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[http://www.suckless.org/programs/dmenu.html dmenu] is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu launcher for X. It can be compared to 'Quicksilver' on OS X, or 'Launchy' on Windows. With a quick keystroke, the dmenu menu appears, enabling you to type the name of a program you wish to start.

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== Configuration ==

== Configuration ==

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Now, you will need to attach the '''dmenu_run''' command to a keystroke combination. This can be done either via your window manager or desktop environment configuration, or with a program like xbindkeys. See the [[Hotkeys]] article for more information.

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Now, you will want to attach the {{Ic|dmenu_run}} command to a keystroke combination. This can be done either via your window manager or desktop environment configuration, or with a program like {{Pkg|xbindkeys}}. See the [[Hotkeys]] article for more information.

Make sure {{Ic|$LANG}} is set to something valid. For example, I was experiencing this problem because I had set {{Ic|$LANG}} to "en_US.UTF_8" in /etc/locale.conf. In my case it should have been "en_US.UTF-8".

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Keep in mind that the value contained in {{Ic|$LANG}} must be uncommented in /etc/locale.gen and generated via {{Ic|locale-gen}} as well.

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== More font support ==

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dmenu can be patched to allow using more fonts which don't seem to be working with the version from mainstream. The patched version can be found on [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1135475 AUR]. Using this version, fonts like Droid Sans mono can be set.

Revision as of 22:57, 8 February 2013

dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line. The user can then select an item, through the arrow keys or typing a part of the name, and the line is printed to stdout. dmenu_run is a wrapper that ships with the dmenu distribution that allows its use as an application launcher.

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Installation

Installing dmenu is simple:

# pacman -S dmenu

run it

$ dmenu_run

Configuration

Now, you will want to attach the dmenu_run command to a keystroke combination. This can be done either via your window manager or desktop environment configuration, or with a program like xbindkeys. See the Hotkeys article for more information.
Also, it is helpful to Prelink dmenu.

Make sure $LANG is set to something valid. For example, I was experiencing this problem because I had set $LANG to "en_US.UTF_8" in /etc/locale.conf. In my case it should have been "en_US.UTF-8".

Keep in mind that the value contained in $LANG must be uncommented in /etc/locale.gen and generated via locale-gen as well.

More font support

dmenu can be patched to allow using more fonts which don't seem to be working with the version from mainstream. The patched version can be found on AUR. Using this version, fonts like Droid Sans mono can be set.